Neil Kinnock Quotes & Sayings

“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”

“Margaret Thatcher was not a malicious person. She was a person who couldn't see, or didn't want to see, the unfairness and disadvantaging consequences of the application of what she thought to be a renewing ideology.”

“No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.”

“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”

“I'm the guy everybody wanted to live next door. They just didn't want me to be prime minister.”

“Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.”

“Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.”

“You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.”

“I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.”

“The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.”